Although PC games weren't mentioned in the article - I'm glad there's still a way to play the old DOS games in Windows with an emulator called DOSBox. The only thing that prevents me from playing some games are the holdover copy protection schemes ("What the third word in paragraph 4 of page 122 in the user's manual?). Yes, in the glory days of DOS the user's manuals were little encyclopedias. Hopefully all other future iterations of Windows will still allow backward ...
Also Crysis was more likely a technology showcase masquerading as a full game. Crytek hoped that Crysis would have marketed their engine to third party developers, and I do not remember any other game than Crysis using the CryEngine at all (Farcry 2?)
In the list I'm excited for Fallout New Vegas and Black-Ops. I have a fear of WoW because I can understand how addicting that would be, so it's out of the question for me. I might try Starcraft but I've gotten tired of RTS games after Command and Conquer Generals. Might dip my toe on Halo:Reach only when I will finally get my first 360. One game not in this list that's gonna take so much of time would be Civilization V. Bring them on!
Space Invaders!!!
Just like a segment, which is composed of two or more points. In Euclidean geometry, a line is a straight curve. But we can easily differentiate between a visible dot and a ring, or a segment. Of course the "ring" on an Xbox is not actually a ring, but four-quarter arcs.
I don't even believe what he's claiming is true - Xbox don't have four "rings" as he said (he meant arcs), only three. And the new Xbox slim won't have the RRoD if it fails, it will have the Red Dot of Death this time. Or he's just stupid to differentiate between a red ring and a red dot.
Battlezone was fun to play, too. It perfectly mixed real time strategy to FPS - I can't forget rushing from point to point to check on base defenses.
@callahan09: I think they're envious of your rig. It's an excellent combo, of course. If you could get another identical HDD and make them do RAID0 that would raise the speed of disk access more, but that would mean reinstalling Windows again.
Yep what's the point of buying something great and then not enjoying it.
I agree. It will only affect the second hand game business - most likely businesses that buy and sell used games will lower their resell price (and of course, their offer price to gamers) to give way for the $10 the buyer will pay EA, just enough to give an incentive to buy the game used. I think it's a winning idea for EA. It will certainly hit the used game business, not the consumer.
...more likely than not, nobody would be playing the game online anymmore because the game would have been to boring and still costs money to play per month.
For everybody's information, with the introduction of the 360 slim, the Red Ring of Death has been eliminated. Forget about RRoD! It's been replaced by the RDoD (Red Dot of Death). :-P
Anyway, I hope by December 2010 or March 2011 there will be enough journals about the 360s failure rate that would give me an informed decision whether to buy it or not (oh, plus today's AA games will be cheaper then)
Best thing to do is look at for good games that had their prices reduced - the ones that were hot and expensive when they first came out.
With just a warranty to rely on a consumer will more than likely end up not paying for a brand new Xbox at the first place, but a refurbished one in the end. I understand not all electronic products are perfectm but 55% failure rate? Cmon!
There was this DOS game when you finished it, it said "you Win" and dumped you right back to DOS.
RRoD kept me away from Xbox360. With the 360s I told myself to wait again for December to see if its reliability has been improved. Now if XBox has mediocre exclusives and mostly living with multiplat titles, I don't see a compelling reason to ride on the 360 when I already have a PS3. The Xbox controller would have been great though - I have one for the PC and it's good to hold.
@elementx: Because PC Gamers can afford it, and they want the best.
Although I haven't played BCBC2 much, it's encouraging to know there are studios who crank out free stuff to add value to their product. IW wants us to pay $30 total for two map packs that contain 4 old COD4 maps.
I'll save my $15 bucks towards Black Ops. I paid for the first DLC but I lost interest with MW2. The new maps seem to be less interesting, and if I just wanted to play on Strike (or is it District?) and Vacant I can just fire up COD4. Anyway the blatant on-your-face and nothing-you-can-do hack players in MW2 just turns me away from the game.
Just one more turn...just one more turn...just one more turn...